With demand for homes for social rent soaring in the capital and the supply of it slowing up, the private sector has increasingly filled the gap - with, of course, the help of housing benefit, or local housing allowance (LHA) as it is termed in this part of the housing jungle. LHA is, of course, being capped and cut back as part of the government's welfare reforms. The coalition's initial justification was to highlight the handful of atypical central London claimants receiving huge sums in LHA. Boris Johnson has long since preferred to point the finger at landlords. Read More: